WCMD Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I'm on the road for work and doing observations in middle schools. Phew! Those teachers need a serious pay raise. I was exhausted just observing. ;)

Before I left, I got a message from Holly about a Paper Crafts Magazine's blog hop. Yeah!

Yep, it's a blog hop for last year's World Card Making Day winners. Here's the list of last year's winners (and the blog line-up):

Paper Crafts Connection

Agata Pfister

 Amber Kroening

 Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

Ashley Marcu

Carolynn Wilson

Chunyuan Wu

 Emily Leiphart

Heather Hoffman

 Jamie Greene

 Jocelyn Olson <--You are here

 Kerrianne Bowen

Laura Bassen

Leigh Penner

Lorena Cantó Lavería

Mercedes Weber

Mignon Jessica Bear

 Pamela Ho

Sarah J. Moerman

Stasia Sloma

 Tarynne Wise

As part of the hop, we're supposed to make a card in the same category as our winning card. Mine was in the love category (you can see it HERE). I still smile ear-to-ear when I think of the e-mail from Holly telling me I was one of the winners. It was such an incredible feeling. :)

Here's my new love card:

Several months ago, I bought the You Are Loved digital journaling cards from Paislee Press. I loved them, but I never got around to using them (I'm not the only one who does that, right??). The chalkboard is longer than a standard journaling card. I resized one of the cards slightly smaller and duplicated the card....5 times to be exact. I layered the journaling cards under each other and used a bit of blurring and the clone stamp in Photoshop to remove any lines between the layers.

After I printed the panel, I layered this fab vellum from Cosmo Cricket and some twine. Here's a close-up:

We were also asked to give a tip or advice. Hmmm...I'm not sure that I have any earth-shattering advice for entering WCMD. I will say that while my card last year did have a sentiment that (clearly) fit in the love category, it was different than "I love you." Honestly, though, I don't have a secret formula for you--I wish! ha ha I hope you enter cards to this year's WCMD contest!

Paper Crafts has several events going on to celebrate the day. You can check out the WCMD page HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Next on the hop is fantastic Kerrianne.


Supplies
Cardstock: (White Linen) Ellen Huston; (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Other paper: (vellum from Simple Surfaces) Cosmo Cricket
Digital element: (journaling card from You Are Loved) Paislee Press at The Lilypad
Twine: (yellow) Divine Twine